Sadovoye

Sadovoye lies beside a lake in the Bityug country, east of Voronezh. Service people are said to have founded the village around the end of the seventeenth century; in 1701 palace peasants were transferred here. The frontier remained unsettled: in April 1708 men of Kondraty Bulavin's rebellion entered Sadovoye and took horses belonging to the palace. A church of the Epiphany is recorded in 1724, by which time the village had become part of the settled countryside of the Bityug basin.